I'm thinking this is the MOBA for me. 15 minute matches... THANK YOU! Most MOBAs are just too freaking long! I've been at loss for a go to multiplayer game since Super Monday Night Combat drop which had similar game time.

These "side-projects" like Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm are the kind of gaming I've missed from Blizzard. Very happy to see them coming back to their roots in a sense. :)

I think with the company hitting 20 years old recently, they've done a fair bit of navel gazing lately (I have a feeling the Activision-Blizzard split from Vivendi isn't hurting either) which is why they pushed hard on the nostalgia at BlizzCon this year.

It doesn't hurt that DotA-style games are all the rage right now, and digital CCGs are the up and coming new hotness. I would still like something new as far as IPs go but I also like seeing them giving new types of games a go as well. If there's anything Blizzard does right, it's analyzing current trends, making them accessible to a mass audience, and polishing the experience a ridiculous amount.

I know this stands to be my first serious attempt at trying a DotA-style game. I bounced off Uber's SMNC and while DotA 2 and LoL have been intriguing I just haven't really found myself interested enough in learning the game and dealing with their communities.

I know this stands to be my first serious attempt at trying a DotA-style game. I bounced off Uber's SMNC and while DotA 2 and LoL have been intriguing I just haven't really found myself interested enough in learning the game and dealing with their communities.

I recently got into dota 2. The only reason I was able to do that was because I have some friends who regularly play and I don't know how anybody would be able to get into those games without having someone hold your hand and walk you through what is going on. Even with that I just now feel like I am getting the hang of it and that is 80 hours in. If Blizzard can take the same deep, competitive, and fun gameplay while making it more accessible and the matches shorter they can have a real winner on their hands.

Short matches + de-emphasizing last-hit mechanics = VERY high likelihood I may actually enjoy this.

This, basically. I gave DOTA 2 about 20 hours of practice against the AI, and while I liked a lot of things about it, last-hitting was just such a stupid mechanic that it put me off of the whole game. I look forward to playing this new HotS in 2017.

Short matches + de-emphasizing last-hit mechanics = VERY high likelihood I may actually enjoy this.

This, basically. I gave DOTA 2 about 20 hours of practice against the AI, and while I liked a lot of things about it, last-hitting was just such a stupid mechanic that it put me off of the whole game. I look forward to playing this new HotS in 2017.

So apparently this is in technical alpha. Here is some basic gameplay footage. Looks pretty good.
I have been thinking that this is what we are getting instead of pvp in Diablo 3 and I am totally okay with that. I mean I can't imagine d3 pvp being much different from a moba anyways. Plus you will have less headaches trying to "balance" (read: narrow as much as possible the discrepancy of) the insane variety of numbers on gear, levels, skills and runes.

This game looks awesome and just the thing that a guy who loves real-time strategy but who is just too old and slow to micro dozens of units is looking for. I'm guessing if you can handle Diablo 3 you can at least be decent at this game.

I also appreciate you don't need to learn a completely new system that's incredibly hard to master like DOTA 2.

So apparently this is in technical alpha. Here is some basic gameplay footage. Looks pretty good.I have been thinking that this is what we are getting instead of pvp in Diablo 3 and I am totally okay with that. I mean I can't imagine d3 pvp being much different from a moba anyways. Plus you will have less headaches trying to "balance" (read: narrow as much as possible the discrepancy of) the insane variety of numbers on gear, levels, skills and runes.

I'm not ok with that. They broke their promise to their customers on D3 regarding PvP.

So apparently this is in technical alpha. Here is some basic gameplay footage. Looks pretty good.I have been thinking that this is what we are getting instead of pvp in Diablo 3 and I am totally okay with that. I mean I can't imagine d3 pvp being much different from a moba anyways. Plus you will have less headaches trying to "balance" (read: narrow as much as possible the discrepancy of) the insane variety of numbers on gear, levels, skills and runes.

I'm not ok with that. They broke their promise to their customers on D3 regarding PvP.

So apparently this is in technical alpha. Here is some basic gameplay footage. Looks pretty good.I have been thinking that this is what we are getting instead of pvp in Diablo 3 and I am totally okay with that. I mean I can't imagine d3 pvp being much different from a moba anyways. Plus you will have less headaches trying to "balance" (read: narrow as much as possible the discrepancy of) the insane variety of numbers on gear, levels, skills and runes.

I'm not ok with that. They broke their promise to their customers on D3 regarding PvP.

As a for this moba though it does look fun.

D3 has the dueling arena, what other promises did they make?

I played in a 4v4 D3 arena at BlizzCon 2010. I believe that is the mode he's referring to.

Ah ok, I'd totally forgotten about that. Personally I don't think D3 is a good place for PvP. The design of the game is not one that lends itself to PvP, just like it wasn't in D2 or D1. I'd rather Blizzard focused on something like HotS for PvP, where they can make that the focus of the game and really polish it.

I'm eagerly awaiting being able to play this. I hope that my Reaper of Souls CE will get me higher priority into the beta.

So apparently this is in technical alpha. Here is some basic gameplay footage. Looks pretty good.I have been thinking that this is what we are getting instead of pvp in Diablo 3 and I am totally okay with that. I mean I can't imagine d3 pvp being much different from a moba anyways. Plus you will have less headaches trying to "balance" (read: narrow as much as possible the discrepancy of) the insane variety of numbers on gear, levels, skills and runes.

I'm not ok with that. They broke their promise to their customers on D3 regarding PvP.

As a for this moba though it does look fun.

I dunno, has the dance studio appeared in WoW?

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Buncha fun haters around here...

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When you really get down to it, isn't a hearse really just an unsuccessful ambulance?

Ah ok, I'd totally forgotten about that. Personally I don't think D3 is a good place for PvP. The design of the game is not one that lends itself to PvP, just like it wasn't in D2 or D1. I'd rather Blizzard focused on something like HotS for PvP, where they can make that the focus of the game and really polish it.

I'm eagerly awaiting being able to play this. I hope that my Reaper of Souls CE will get me higher priority into the beta. :D

Probably better discussion in the D3 thread, but I absolutely loved it in D2. When I wasn't doing gear runs it was a lot of fun.

Ha! It's not a deal breaker. Just a little disappointed that I can't play all the characters right off the bat and see who works with my style. I'll just have to wait a month or so until the rotation goes through all of them... eck...